“Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne, let it be assailed without pity and without regret, for under the domination of an inconvenient falsehood, no one can prosper.Compton”

“I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath!Compton”

“Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.Compton”

“I question all things. As I stand before the festering and varnished facades of your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing scorn: Lo and behold; all this is fraud!Compton”

“Gather around me, Oh! ye death-defiant, and the earth itself shall be thine, to have and to hold!Compton”

“For I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the “laws” of man and “You”!Compton”

“Too long right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets!Compton”

“No creed must be accepted upon authority of a “divine” nature. Religions must be put to th question. No moral dogma must be taken for granted-no standard of measurement deified. There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!Compton”

“He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom.Compton”

“Too long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought!Compton”

“I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your commandments.Compton”

“Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, he who saith “thou shalt not” to me is my mortal foe!Compton”

“No hoary falsehood shall conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.Compton”

“I raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong!Compton”

“I gaze into the glassy eye of yoursome god, and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull!Compton”